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BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9983 Review

22 Dec, 14 10:41 AM

Overview

Attractive Dual SIM Handset With Excellent Features

By Amrit

BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9983 is a 4G based handset released in October, 2014. It promises to be a challenger to many established players with excellent features and good looks. The sales package comes packed with a charger, handset, headset, battery, USB cable, user manual and warranty card.

Display and Dimensions

It has a 3.1 inch capacitive display that assures a modest screen resolution of 720x720 pixels. It offers a pixel density of 328 ppi and has 16 million color support. As far as measurements are concerned, it comes with a height of 119mm, a width of 67.1mm and a thickness of 10.6mm. Its weight is 140 grams. It is bar shaped handset and is designed with some sensors like accelerometer sensor, ambient light sensor, compass sensor, gyro sensor, magnetometer sensor and proximity sensor.

Processor and Operating System

The device is equipped with the latest BlackBerry 10.3 OS and is backed by 1.5 GHz, Dual- core Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon processor along with Adreno 225 GPU. It's 2GB RAM helps the handset in being able to handle different applications easily unlike its predecessors.

Camera and Storage

It has an 8MP autofocus camera which can capture decent pictures with a resolution of 3264x2448 pixels. In addition, it has a digital zoom and LED flash which helps to take photographs even in low light conditions. The user can make video calls and can take selfies through its 2MP front shooter. Another great feature about the handset is that it has an internal memory of 64GB but you can insert memory card of up to 128GB making it practically a mini PC.

Connectivity and Battery

As far as connectivity is concerned, it supports several options like 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, USB, Infrared, NFC, EDGE, GPRS and Wi-Fi. The Li-Ion 2100 mAh battery promises a talktime of upto 9 hours and a standby time of upto 288 hours, which is quite impressive.

Other Features

The device is being offered with some additional features like BlackBerry World, BBM, Evernote and Amazon Appstore.